Reader feedback: Hard to feel sorry for Karmanos; Compuware did right thing

May 17, 2013

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I was taken aback at the attitude of Danialle Karmanos regarding Compuware calling off an extravagant party for her husband. I have a hard time feeling sorry for her and her having to use her own money. What Compuware did was common sense. I applaud the company. What Danialle did or said is just plain selfish. Out of touch!

Ronda Jewell

Holly

Free Press overplayed Karmanos party story

What, slow news day? Karmanos’ wife is angry that the company doesn't want to pay for a big party? THIS is most important news story of the day? Are you kidding me? What a waste of paper. Did you know there was a five-victim shooting last night? A 60-year-old woman was killed. How far back was that story buried? The Karmanos story belongs in the celebrity news column, not the top of the front page.

Thomas Owoc

Rochester Hills

“For Profit”

is the name of the game in an America based upon the Capitalistic system of greed is good.

Hospitals have been taken over by conglomerates that are intent on reducing their costs while driving up profits by increased costs to patients (insurance costs). Detroit has the recent DMC and now the Ford and Beaumont hospital merger. (Reduce costs by cutting personnel and outsourcing while increasing pay for executives based on profit achieved) The reduction of care for patients that are on Medicare and Medicaid resulted in America having one of the highest infant-mortality rates and a reduction in life expectancy due to lack of preventative medicine. Every major industrial nation in the world has mandated low-cost government paid medical care for the people. America is no longer first in anything except profit for the few at the expense of the many and a government that has been bought and paid for by special interests. (Insurance companies and the AMA included).

Paul A. Heller

Washington

If you have things you want to sell in a flea market, you have to pay for display space. You cannot sell in that market for nothing. However, when it comes to selling in the U.S. market, no such payment is required. Companies can have their products made overseas with cheap labor, and then reap the higher profits by selling in the largest and richest market in the world for free. On top of that, they find ways to exploit tax loopholes and so don't even pay their fair share of taxes on these profits. We may not be able to control transnational corporations that operate as worlds unto themselves, but we can control access to our market. A simple solution would be to require a hefty percentage of products sold in this market to be made here. That would reduce outsourced jobs and increase work for people hare at home. It's not our responsibility to ensure economic expansion overseas before we ensure economic expansion at home.